Bateman Island

Island View, Washington

Before dropping 20 feet down the riverbank to Bateman Island, read the informative sign at the Wye Park parking lot. There’s a lot of history and birdlife waiting for you on that small island. Cross the paved 23-mile Sacagawea Heritage Trail (see “Scouting Trails in the Tri-Cities” sidebar) and pass a gate at the entrance to the causeway. Bateman Island was farmed from the 1870s to the 1950s, and you’ll see plenty of evidence of this—old roads, foundations, nonnative trees. A fire swept the island in 2001, and you’ll see evidence of that too.

Before dropping 20 feet down the riverbank to Bateman Island, read the informative sign at the Wye Park parking lot. There’s a lot of history and birdlife waiting for you on that small island. Cross the paved 23-mile Sacagawea Heritage Trail (see “Scouting Trails in the Tri-Cities” sidebar) and pass a gate at the entrance to the causeway. Bateman Island was farmed from the 1870s to the 1950s, and you’ll see plenty of evidence of this—old roads, foundations, nonnative trees. A fire swept the island in 2001, and you’ll see evidence of that too.